No Man's Sky

[Jaak]

This is the only reason I recently brought a PS4, well and for future releases of Gran Turismo and Metal Gear

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What is No Man's Sky

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Can't fucking wait!

[ED40]

that looks incredible

[Riggs]

Holy shit

[hostage_85]

That looks INSANE!

[Jaak]

This is coming out officially tomorrow...anyone know if any shops are breaking release date on this , would love picking this up tonight on the way home.

[Gr3mlin]

This is coming out officially tomorrow...anyone know if any shops are breaking release date on this , would love picking this up tonight on the way home.

Should be out today already for PS4 and PC coming 12th.

EDIT, checked JBs and it says the 10th...well they fucked us over as everyone announced the 9th. the US are already playing!

[Jaak]

Yeah we fall under euro launch - 10 Aug .
Maybe I will be able to convince big w staff that its today haha

[adrenalin]

Im worried it will get boring as shit.

Exploring wise its very in depth but it looks like same crap over and over with no real objectives

[stormtrooper]

Have been watching some of the live play today and it looks really good. However it also appears to be extremely repetitive from what I've seen of the early stages gameplay. Visually the game is amazing and will naturally look a fuck-tonn better on PC seeing as only console has it today, believe PC has been delayed a few days for release. Think I'll wait a week or so and see what the gameplay is like when people are a bit further along before I make a decision as to whether or not I want to part cash for it.

[Phyber]

Pre ordered it ages ago and am looking forward to exploration for exploration's sake.

Heard launch was delayed until the 12th?? But am aware of shops selling it anyway and people gaming a leaked copy without the mega day one patch that is supposed to change a lot of stuff. Designer was unhappy about it and tweeted not to ruin it for yourself.

Have not read the change log as it contains spoilers...am happy to wait.

[ForgedV6]

This reminds me of one of my all time favourite games! Freelancer!

[Phyber]

I fell in love with Elite on NES when I was a kid and have given a couple of space sims a go since then but don't remember really getting into any of them.

Would like there to be Thargoids in this game :)

[masTers]

Any first day impressions?

[disc0-dan]

This reminds me of one of my all time favourite games! Freelancer!

Freelancer was epic, however i dont think this will be as fast paced and 'fun'. This is will be minecraft for space :(

[TheChad]

I made the mistake of sinking a couple of hundred hours into skyrim on the PS3. Won't ever bother with a a massive open game on a console again.
So many mods etc that you either miss out on or pay through the dick for.

As painful as it is I'm waiting until Saturday to play this as Jesus intended.

[Phyber]

Have a housewarming that day so will be forced to wait until Sunday...and have some car stuff to get done as well that day in prep for a long drive I've got on the radar. Never enough hours in a day...that's why I often have little sleep, just tryna cram it all in there!

[TheChad]

For anyone who has preordered, it's a slight spoiler but you need to know...
If you preorder and got the ship, don't get/use it until you've repaired your original ship's hyperdrive. It's reported that if you don't do the tutorial it doesn't automatically trigger the stuff to do it in the future and you basically can't progress or have to just stumble across the things you need to make it work.

I don't fully understand how it works and how you get the special preorder ship, because I'm avoiding as much as I can until tomorrow. Just an important thing I've been told so far.

[mys1]

I did the build up, unlocked it all, then changed over

4 hours in so far - haven't scratched the surface haha

[DAN [GTI]]

It's both epic and a buzz-kill. You think you are finally making progress and then it kicks you in the balls just to remind you how big the game is and how much more you have to discover and learn!

[mys1]

Yeah I found myself aimlessly looking at shit on a planet today

3 hours and no real progress haha

Need to get a better ship. Trying to find a good mining planet so I can upgrade asap

[Phyber]

Really enjoying it. Glad I wanted to finish building up my starter ship before swapping out for the preorder bonus one - caught wind of the bug when I was trying to find info on patches whilst avoiding spoilers!

[TheChad]

I got pretty lucky in the first couple of star systems and found a couple of planets that I name "goldmine1" and "goldmine2"
filled up the ship twice with gold and drove it in. Along with some other stuff I've managed to reach 2.5m units and i found a bunch of those little things with exosuit expansions and now I've got 20 slots on my suit and just using the DLC ship until I can upgrate.
Seen a couple of 4.5-5.5m ships that have 30 slots, I'm already thinking how much gold could fit in there.





Took ages to get used to flying the shitty ships, they don't handle well and I would much have preferred BF3/4 style controls with AD being yaw and mouse doing pitch and roll but I've won a few space fights now, haven't started any yet!

[adrenalin]

After dislocating thumb i have smashed a heap of hours in

Tips
If you find a planet full of gold or emeril keep mining it and selling it

Max out exosuit slots (48) then save 5 million

Buy ship with 25+ slots

Progress to center


Also anyone hit an atlas pass v2 or v3?

[Phyber]

Yeah I've got a moon with huge chunks of Emeril, only just found it last night and filled my pockets with one block of it, worth loads! I'm struggling with inventory management big time. Hoarder complex :)

No Atlas passes at all yet, I take it you find a schematic?

Also playing late and very tired, found a Monolith and talked to it, got a reward for my choice and I was sitting there comparing to current item and nodded off, weight of finger right clicked and auto declined it! Reloaded to save right prior and tried 4 times but only got an item worse than what I had :/ You snooze you lose!


Also the missus wants me to name a really good planet or star after her hahaha

I've named the first planet "Steve's Launchpad Into The Unknown".

Fuck I want to take a holiday from work now. The people that pre booked time off and got shafted by the delay would be so pissed.


Edit - why I came to post here in the first place - if you're using the GOG purchased version make sure to log in to the galaxy client, then launch the game, so it is actually logged in to the servers! Otherwise you can't upload your progress/discoveries - I read that you get three times more cash for uploading to the master server. Also it's how patches are delivered (unlike Witcher 3 that had thme in downloads section of GOG account page)

[adrenalin]

I got v1

Warp few times till anomaly comes up


Fly to it abd talk to aliens

Should get v1

[Phyber]

Handy tip - hit melee and jetpack at the same time (more or less) and the rush forward from the melee attack stays with you in flight - much faster ground movement!

[TheChad]

I've not progressed very far due to my obsessiveness. This might not actually be a good game for me as I will just stay far too long and make sure I explore a lot.

I suppose it's worth just checking out each planet for a bit and checking out different geographical spots, as it does tend to repeat a lot. After that I suppose you just fly until you spot something decent like a lab or a few chunks of whatever you're after grouped together.

I've definitely been taking advantage of the momentum from running with the jet pack. Keeps you moving while your stamina charges.

[Phyber]

I've not progressed very far due to my obsessiveness. This might not actually be a good game for me as I will just stay far too long and make sure I explore a lot.

Are you me?


I'm actually trying to find the last life form on my "home" planet. I won't worry about doing that for 99% of others due to the time it takes. The cash you get is a fair sum but slow to get.

[TheChad]

250k quickly becomes not that fair of a sum when you consider the level of effort next to doing gold mining runs. Two suit or one ship slots of gold is ~220k

[Shnoog]

The best farming i found was finding a planet with vortex cubes littered everywhere. I was getting about 500k in about 5 mins walking around. You get about 25k for each one but you have to pretty much fill all your inv with them.

[Phyber]

Something slowing me down a bit is the game suddenly dropping to 15 FPS (PC) when I hop back in my ship. Tried with lowest gfx settings (except res - always 1920x1080). I think it's one of the fixes coming in a patch. Happens after about an hour or two of flying around a planet surface. Haven't tried going to space to fix it yet though.

Really wish there was a ground waypoint system. You can scan a building with the goggles but they do nothing!!! other than place a small dot on it that disappears later. Possibly other buildings of the same type show up too, I'm not quite sure yet.

[Evman]

Another tip - the ship slots hold more than the ones on yourself, so if you're mining something fill up your ship and put any other items on yourself.

Also, keep an eye out for varying values of products. I've come across a space station that is valuing plutonium (I think... The red crystals anyway) higher than gold.

[TheChad]

I keep finding crashed ships with exactly the same inventory slot number as me. It's balls.

Tonight i found one that looked like a 30 slotter... The newer looking ships kind of like a plane with wings that have two big rectangle lockers under them. It's BS, I've seen two of them in the space centre but they had 29 and 30 slots each... This was 17. Guess i need to buy my way in.


Got my scanner and stamina up to +3 now and jetpack +1. Jetpack +3 needs elements I've never seen anywhere, even to buy yet. Anyway, long range scan plus melee-jetpack means I'm able to explore heaps. My GEK language is booming now because I find so many stones.

[anton]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9t6GUjL1Vk

[DAN [GTI]]

I actually went to a planet that seemed like a prehistoric earth, huge lizards and birds.

[Phyber]

Had a chuckle at that video, mainly due to the murdered theme music though!

That's the luck of the draw for you.



Something I wonder about is the flying intro - the names that sometimes pop up, do you think those are actual start points people have spawned at? That would be cool, but too close together I think given the sheer numbers talked about.

[TheChad]

Big tip for anyone who doesn't know... Plan your ship/tool/suit upgrades to be next to eachother.
I noticed for instance that if I built shield booster in a box next to my shield then they got a yellow box around them both. It gives you a bonus. Now all my shit is laid out nice and everything has bonuses. Best bet is to try and find guns and ships with all boxes together in the first few columns. No gaps.

Today I found a moon that had BULK vortex cubes ($25k) in caves. I also found two trading outposts surrounded by caves... Go down, fill up, grenade the roof to get out, sell all, back down the shaft I made. Made 4 mil in about an hour.

Finally found a good ship with well laid out 30 slots and bought it for 6m. It's the big wide type with lots of boxes under the wings. Now all crashed ships and trader ships I find, even the little ones are 30+. Seems like you just have to get going in the right direction and you'll find better stuff. I also got attacked by 6 pirates and got really frustrated because of the shitty mechanics of flying especially on planets. Eventually gave up and landed and they fucked off. Couldn't even hit eachother when flying over the planet...

[Evman]

If you happen to load the game and your progress is lost, which happened to me, go into options and reload last save. I had a mild panic when 21 hours had disappeared...

[TheChad]

If you happen to load the game and your progress is lost, which happened to me, go into options and reload last save. I had a mild panic when 21 hours had disappeared...

There's been a few issues I've seen across the board on both consoles with similar problems. I think I'm going to make a folder for manual backups of saves.

[Phyber]

I noticed for instance that if I built shield booster in a box next to my shield then they got a yellow box around them both. It gives you a bonus.




You fucking what



I thought the halos meant you knew the recipe for them...cheers hahaha


Got attacked by space pirates first time ever last night and fucked them up - they were ripping my shields nicely but it popped up saying to repair using Titanium - luckily I'd been hoarding that on the planet right beforehand! Ended up using about 1000 worth before I killed them all. Got down to like one ship/hull strength icon then docked at space station to repair but didn't have a Vy'Keen Effigy. Turns out save, quit, reload fixes the ship...


Keen for that patch to come along but I found forcing graphics options in nVidia control panel helped things somewhat.

Also got inspired by TheChad's talk of long foot journeys and did the same - was great because slowdowns only happen (if at all) when I hop into the craft.

Rocking the Railgun (forget the name) mining laser mod - so good. No need to fit the boltcaster to the multitool now!

[Phyber]

If you happen to load the game and your progress is lost, which happened to me, go into options and reload last save. I had a mild panic when 21 hours had disappeared...

On PC you might be able to copy out save files from the directory manually as a further backup. Might look when I get home as that would piss me off bad.


Edit
SHould have finished reading the thread before replying as I see I was beaten haha

[evo5aurus]

was super hyped for this game pre launch but it died off after all the delays and shit so still haven't picked it up. Is it worth buying right now? Or will the price plummet because of the lukewarm reception it's got?

This post has really turned me off buying it right now

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4y046e/wheres_the_nms_we_were_sold_on_heres_a_big_list/

[Phyber]

Yeah I'm glad I wasn't on the hype train, forgetting it was due to come out was good, and not even knowing about it until a few months ago as well helped me go in with "lower expectations".

I'm really enjoying it! Some things I wish were easier like waypoints on the ground and maybe a list of previously visited solar systems so I can find my start system which is only one jump away (but in which direction! so many possible lines)




Wow watching the video of the dino planet and massive freighter fleet warping in etc does contrast against the current game....


Maybe meet up with one of us here and give it a quick go on a new profile if you're worried - or buy it on Steam and if no good get a refund?

[TheChad]

I'm hoping there's more to come in patches. It's so rare for a PC game to feel "compete" or finished on release. It seems like we've gotten to a point where 85% and payable is released and then we're asked for patience while they patch it... I want to see more variation in these worlds, they've all felt very similar and realistically I've found very similar animals. Though I do note similar animals in the same star systems or on similar planets which I guess is interesting. I'll wait until ive seen 40 planets and their moons to really complain.

[Phyber]

Yeah I'm hoping the same, and holding on to that comment made that "things get more alien the closer you get to the centre"

[TheChad]

Good point. I've only made two jumps due to my compulsiveness, guess I should hold off stressing about sameness of planets when I've only been to 9...

Did anyone not accept the Atlas's guidance at the start? I haven't even gotten to the blue place I've been compelled to head to.

[volt_bite]

Could be cash related. They need to deliver the game and get money/funding. They can always fix the game later especially since games always have bugs and updates anyway. Also games are getting far more complex (graphics and gameplay wise). People are also expecting far more then they use to. Everyone compares everything.

[evo5aurus]

The big difference with this one is what they promised and showed off in marketing videos was removed or significantly altered in the final release without any explanation what so ever. If they had to remove it to push the game out and recoup some costs thats fine but let the community know whats going on.

[volt_bite]

That's nothing new though. They probably didn't want to as that probably would've reduced their opening sales number. It's just all my speculation/opinion.

[tinto]

Played for the first time for a few hours last night. Got caught in a cave/maze for ages until i shot my way out with a load of grenade things.
Sony Z5 on remote play was pretty decent when I was pretending to put the kids to sleep.
Realised it is minecraft in space.
Will play again.

[Phyber]

Update is out for GoG and I assume others, cummon 4G!!

http://i.imgur.com/rYGFbwF.png


Also mods site

http://nomansskymods.com/

[TheChad]

From what I understand that update was only a fix for the gamebreaking bugs and to report or fix the serious bugs involving certain cards and systems.
Let me know if it's added anything of note, but I believe the first proper patch isn't due out for at least another week.

[Phyber]

Barely played it but I noticed it pre loads resources during the fly through space opening instead of having stutter as soon as you load in.

[Phyber]

Another one out:

GoG reports:

Patch 1287169 (19 August 2016)
An issue causing the game not to save after dying is fixed
A crash which occurred during warp is fixed
A crash in the scanning system is fixed
Phenom II processors crash fixed

Patch 1284085 (18 August 2016)
Game crash fixes
Performance and compatibility improvements.



Slightly annoyed that Steam updates are reported to be only a few dozen MB but the GoG is downloading like a GB each time :/

[Evman]

Came across a planet with "Frenzied" and elite sentinels, but also butt loads of emerel. This planet is basically -

https://namratadatta.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/mr-burns-evil-grin.jpg

[Phyber]

How many jumps towards the centre? I've only gone one system so far hahaha

[TheChad]

Came across a planet with "Frenzied" and elite sentinels, but also butt loads of emerel. This planet is basically -

https://namratadatta.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/mr-burns-evil-grin.jpg

I also found a planet like that. Emeril and copper everywhere but the sentinels alert on you just for existing!

[evo5aurus]

Slightly annoyed that Steam updates are reported to be only a few dozen MB but the GoG is downloading like a GB each time :/

If I'm not mistaken GoG versions don't patch game files individually, so if a large game file is altered in a patch you have to download the entire, updated file again instead of just applying to a patch to the file like steam would

[adrenalin]

Im 35 jumps in

Pretty much maxed out my stuff i think.

At level 10 for almost everything bar the warping \ sols \ finding all animals

[TheChad]

35 jumps!!! wow.

level 10? where's the level? have I just not gone far enough to know what you're talking about? I haven't gone to the atlas marker yet

[adrenalin]

go into the Journey tab.

On ps4 you get there by pressing options instead of the Touchpad so not sure what it looks like on PC.

Its basically the same as objectives.

You want to reach level 10 for some objectives.

Im just going for the center now.


I have maxed out exosuit, ship has 30 slots, gun has 24 slots.

Just trying to get level 10 on everything before i hit center.


Only reason i am this far is i have had a heap of time off after dislocating thumb at basketball

[Phyber]

Just found my first high security planet, gavitino balls all over it. I had about ten free slots on the exosuit (33 total just hoarding lots of elements) so loaded up as fast as I could, made use of the melee speed boost jumping to get away and sold a bunch at the space station...then on the way out found an alien that was buying them for 100% markup, d'oh.

Really loved the excitement of constant combat and loot collection! 5/7 would raid again

[adrenalin]

Just found my first high security planet, gavitino balls all over it. I had about ten free slots on the exosuit (33 total just hoarding lots of elements) so loaded up as fast as I could, made use of the melee speed boost jumping to get away and sold a bunch at the space station...then on the way out found an alien that was buying them for 100% markup, d'oh.

Really loved the excitement of constant combat and loot collection! 5/7 would raid again

Keep raiding that planet.

Max out exosuit slots \ then save 10 mil spare.

After that you are good as gold outside of learning languages \ getting blue prints

[TheChad]

yeah I will say that those planets with "frenzied" sentinel presence are quite easy if you have grenades enabled.
Don't shoot the sentinels first, they call 1 more so you have to kill 2, just pick up the item, they alert on you, nade them, presence gone and farm the item.

Also check caves on those planets, often higher concentration of goodies in caves than on the surface.

[OmEg_A7]

Is anyone else bitterly disappointed with this game so far?

[mys1]

Is anyone else bitterly disappointed with this game so far?

Not disappointed as such

I get bored after a few hours, then realise I've just been lost doing some whack shit in the same spot, It's repetitive in its actions - but the new discoveries make it addictive

[adrenalin]

Is anyone else bitterly disappointed with this game so far?

Starting to now.

It needs a serious amount of work.

Combat is boring as shit \ aliens you meet are way to basic.

[Phyber]

It would be far better if there was the detail that was promised/inferred back in the development phase. It's like a decent foundation for an epic game, but lacks the sheer volume of content diversity I'd expect from a larger development team. By that I mean more the NPC interactions, ship physics, lack of dynamic/custom blueprints to name a few.

BUT

I am enjoying my time in it so far. I am happy just mucking around with no real goal in mind besides ambling my way towards the centre. Hell I've still only warped twice, and once was only to clear off an accidental waypoint (since you can't remove them!). Doing that has led me to two raidable hostile planets next to each other so that was good.

I have seen some crazy looking creatures in screenshots which I'm hoping is from getting closer in to the centre. The movements and interactions with them and between them feels underdone though.

I'm 44 hours in and have seen about 7 planets I think.

[hostage_85]

Agreed, I've been playing this off and on for about a week now. Only made 3 Jumps.
If I start playing I will be addicted to it for hours, however when i'm off it I don't feel the need to go back to it.
I think this is down to the repetitive style of play it currently is.
I'm wondering what they will add with he updates.

What they've managed to do with procedural generation astounds me though.

[TheChad]

I'm glad to hear I'm not too slow in my movements when compared to some.

Game feels very samey, and I go through patches where I find like 4 exosuit upgrades in 10 min. I've stopped caring about my ship upgrades and gun layout for the moment, I was being too precious. I realise now that the upgrades are incremental, so I couldn't just FIND a 20slot gun when I had 14 slots, I had to go to 16, then 18 then 20. All in the space of 30min.

I finally ditched that 31 slot ship with the really nice block layout. picked up a 32slot heaper, will just hop around this galaxy a bit and try to avoid pirates etc in the hope of finding a couple more with better slots.

Current slots are
Ship 32 -crap layout
Gun 20 -decent layout, not perfect
Suit 42 -I'm now too broke to buy any more.



Oh and today I jumped to a solar system that had 3 planets, two of which had been discovered already by someone else! I claimed the other one and the star itself. I got excited but I also feel like he quit the game because 1 planet was called "1" and the next one was "monkey"
I'm guessing 1 was his first planet and he didn't go very far... Still, hope if he's still playing he messages me, his name was far too common.

[Phyber]

I plan to leave a solar system name trail. Have not named all planets, but did name the high security ones as such just to assist in looting :)

[TheChad]

Maxed suit
Maxed gun
Last 2 planets have been barren AF, but lots radio towers so found a couple of good crashed ships. Up to 34 or 35 slots now.

Pretty much done, time to jump to the next system I reckon. That's where my first waypoint is. I'm kind of worried that it will be boring now. Just grinding to get a better ship every couple of hours before I hoard resources to make better upgrades.
My tool has good upgrades. Makes mining and killing shit so easy.

[anton]

Maxed suit
Maxed gun
Last 2 planets have been barren AF, but lots radio towers so found a couple of good crashed ships. Up to 34 or 35 slots now.

Pretty much done, time to jump to the next system I reckon. That's where my first waypoint is. I'm kind of worried that it will be boring now. Just grinding to get a better ship every couple of hours before I hoard resources to make better upgrades.
My tool has good upgrades. Makes mining and killing shit so easy.

thats literally all you do till you get the the center of the galaxy there is no reason or story for you to unlock.. and if you want to save yourself some time youtube whats @ the end of the galaxy and then try ang get a refund ASAP

[TheChad]

I've already heard. I'm not playing a whole lot right now in the hope they either add more content or some modders make something fun out of it